MEN FROM NASH COUNTY, NC WHO SERVED IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMED SERVICES, 1861 to 1865: INFORMATION FROM THEIR COMBINED MILITARY AND PENSION RECORDS
Research Status: Complete for the 47th NC Infantry, Company A which is overwhelmingly from Nash County, North Carolina.
Researched and Posted by: Earl P. Bell, Jr
Date: Sunday, 8 November 2009; completed on Tuesday, 17 November 2009
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47th NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COMPANY A: ROSTER
[all men listed below are from Nash County, North Carolina]
FACTS ABOUT 47TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COMPANY A:
1. Known as the “Chicora Guards.”
2. Raised and enlisted in Nash County, NC in January – February, 1862
3. Mustered in at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, 11 April 1862
A
ABERNATHY, EDMOND J., Private,
Enlisted at Camp Vance at age of 20 on 18 October 1862; wounded and captured at Burgess; Mill, VA on 27 October 1864; confined in Point Lookout Prison, MD on 31 October 1864; paroled at Point Lookout on 28 March 1865; received at Boulware’s Wharf, James River, VA in a prisoner exhange.
ABERNATHY, ROBERT T., Private,
Enlisted at the age of 32 on 3 May 1862; captured at Burgess’Mill, VA on 27 October 1864; confined at Point Lookout Prison, MD on 31 October 1864; paroled at Point Lookout on 28 March 1865; hospitalized at Point Lookout on 27 January 1865 with “Chronic diarrhoea and scurvy; died at Point Lookout on 3 February 1865.
ABERNATHY, WILLIAMSON, Private,
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 28 on 29 January 1862; killed at Gettysburg on 1 July 1863.
AYCOCK, JAMES O., Private,
Enlisted in at the age of 31 on 13 March 1862; hospitalized on 12 November 1862; reported on detail as a nurse in January-February, 1865; died prior to 9 April 1865; circumstances not recorded.
B
BAILEY, WILSON, 3rd Lieutenant, 47th NC Infantry, Company A
Farmer who enlisted at age 39; became 3rd Lieutenant 11 April 1862; resigned 17 May 1861; died of disease; place of death not identified.
BAILEY, THOMAS C., Private,
Farmer who enlisted at Orange Court House, VA on 6 March 1864; hospitalized from a gunshot wound at Charlottesville, VA on 25 June 1864; captured at Petersburg on 25 March 1865; confined at Point Lookout Prison, MD until his released on 23 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
BAINES, ABIJAH, Private,
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 34 on 4 February 1862; captured at Gettysburg on 3 July 1863; confined in Union prison at Fort McHenry, MD; transferred to Fort Delaware, DE on 1 August 1863; transferred to Union prison at Point Lookout, MD on 30 October 1864; paroled at Point Lookout on 31 October 1864; received at Venus Point, Savannah River, GA on 15 November 1864 as part of a prisoner exchange; captured near Petersburg on 25 March 1865; confined in Union prison at Point Lookout, MD; released on 23 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America. [an amazing record of survival!]
BAINES, JORDAN D., Private,
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 28 on 30 January 1862; died in camp near Kinston on 12 April 1862 of disease.
BAINES, REDMOND, Private,
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 25 on 23 February 1862; died at Camp French, near Wilmington, NC on 27 October 1862 of “febris typhoides” (typhoid fever).
BAINES, WILLIAM, Private,
Mason who enlisted at the age of 36 on 31 January 1862; hospitalized at Richmond on 16 April 1864 of acute diarrhoea; transferred on 8 May 1864; reported sick in brigade hospital in Sept. – Oct, 1864; surrendered at Appomattox on 9 April 1865; NC pension records indicate he was wounded sometime in 1864.
BARNHILL, JOHN JESTON, Sergeant
Farmer who enlisted in Halifax County, NC at the age of 23 on 8 February 1862 and assigned to the 47th NC Infantry, Company A; mustered in a Corporal; promoted to Sergeant prior to 1 March 1863; slightly wounded at Gettysburg on 1 July 1863; wounded at Bristoe Station, VA; returned to duty prior to 1 March 1864; captured at Petersburg on 3 April 1865; confined in Union prison at Hart’s Island, New York Harbor; released on 17 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
BASS, EDMOND F., Private,
Farmer who enlisted at age of 23 on 24 February 1862; captured at Burgess’ Mill, VA on 27 October 1864; confined Point Lookout Prison, MD on 31 October 1864; paroled at Point Lookout on 13 February 1865; received at Cox’s Wharf, James River, VA about 15 Feb. 1865 in a prisoner exchange.
BASS, JESSE F., Private
Resident of Nash County who enlisted in Wake County on 22 September 1864; captured at Sutherland’s Station, VA on 2 April 1865; confined in the Union prison at Hart’s Island, New York Harbor, until his release on 17 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
BASS, WILLIAM T., Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 48 on 24 February 1862; captured at Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863; confined at the Union prison at Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC on 23 July 1863; transferred to Point Lookout, MD on 8 August 1863; died at Point Lookout, MD on 28 March 1864.
BATCHELLOR, JORDAN W. E., Private,
Enlisted at the age of 35 on 3 May 1862; captured at Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863; confined in the Union prison at Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC; transferred to Point Lookout, MC on 18 September 1864; received at Varina, VA on 22 September 1864 in a prisoner exchange; hospitalized at Richmond on 22 September 1864 with chronic diarrhoea; furloughed for sixty days on 4 October 1864.
BATCHELOR, RICHARD B., Private
Enlisted at the age of 22 on 1 January 1863; captured at Bristoe Station, VA on 12 October 1863; confined in Union prison at Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC on 15 October 1863; transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 October 1863; paroled at Point Lookout Prison on 30 October 1864; received at Venus Point, Savannah River, George on 15 November 1864 in a prisoner exchange.
BATCHELOR, RUFFIN L., Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 31 on 10 February 1862; transferred to 30 NC Infantry, Company I on 22 January 1864.
BATCHELOR, WRIGHT S., Private
Farmer who enlised at the age 33 on 4 Feb. 1862; captured Bristoe Station, VA on 14 October 1863; confined at the Union prison at Old Capitol Prison, Washington , DC; transferred to Point Lookout Prison on 27 October 1863; released at Point Lookout on 24 Feb. 1864 after taking Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America and joining the 1st U.S. Infantry, Company F; deserted from Federal service at Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 14 September 1864; returned to duty in the 47th NC Infantry, Company A after 31 Oct. 1864; surrendered at Appomattox on 9 April 1865.
BISSETT, JACKSON J., Private
Enlisted at the age of 27 on 19 April 1862; captured at Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863; confined at Point Lookout Prison, MD on 17 August 1863; died at Point Lookout Prison, MD on 19 December 1863; cause of death not reported.
BISSETT, JOSEPH J., Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 18 on 5 Feb. 1862; wounded at or near Richmond prior to 1 Nov. 1864; surrendered at Appomattox on 9 April 1865.
BISSETT, JOSIAH, Private
Enlised at the age of 27 on 4 April 1862; wounded prior to 1 November 1864; hospitalized in Raleigh on 27 Dec. 1864 with a gunshot wound and compound fracture of the left leg; transferred on 1 Jan. 1865; detailed to guard duty at Petersburg on 23 March 1865.
BISSETT, MANOAH, Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 16 on 3 May 1862 for the war as a substitute for another man; wounded in Sept.-Oct 1864, place and date not reported; retired to the Invalid Corps on 13 Dec. 1864; detailed for light duty at Wilson, NC in the medical department on 5 Jan. 1865; postwar roster states that he was wounded at Bristoe Station, VA, Spotsylvania Court House, VA and Cold Harbor, VA.
BISSETT, PAYTON, Private
Previously seved in the 30th NC Infantry, Company I; transferred to the 47th, Company A on 22 Jan. 1864; captured at the South Side Railroad, near Petersburg, VA, 2 April 1865; confined to Union prison at Hart’s Island, New York Harbor on 7 April 1865; released at Hart’s Island on 17 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America; NC pension records indicate that he lost an arm when a tree fell on him, at an unreported date and place.
BOON, WILLIAM, Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 27 on 3 March 1862 as a substitute for another Nash County man; captured at Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863; sent to Union prison in Baltimore, MD; transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 17 Aug. 1863; released at Point Lookout on 24 Feb. 1864 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America and joining the 1st U.S. Infantry, Company C.
BOYKIN, LOVETT, Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 17 on 7 March 1862 as a substitute for another Nash County man; wounded in the breast at Gettysburg on 3 July 1863; captured at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct. 1863; confined at Old Capitol Union Prison, Washington, DC; transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 October 1863; part of a prisoner exchange on 30 Sept 1864; captured at Petersburg on 3 April 1865; confined to a Union prison at Hart’s Island, New York Harbor on 7 April 1865; released after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
BRANTLEY, GREEN
Enlisted in the company in June, 1964; no further records.
BRANTLEY, JACKSON M., Private
Enlisted at the age of 19 on 4 May 1862; captured at Burgess’ Mill, VA on 27 October 1864; confined to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 31 October 1864; released Point Lookout on 23 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
BRANTLEY, MACK, Private [not firmly established that he was from Nash County, NC]
No place or date for enlistment reported; captured at or near Burgess’ Mill, VA on 27 Oct. 1864; confined at Point Lookout Prison, MD on 31 Oct. 1864; paroled at Point Lookout on 17 Jan. 1865; received at Boulware’s Wharf, James River, VA on 21 January 1865 in a prisoner exchange.
BRASWELL, CHARLES J., Sergeant
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 22 on 23 Jan. 1862; mustered in as a Sergeant; caputed at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct. 1863; confined at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC on 15 Oct. 1863; transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 Oct. 1863; took the Oath of Allegiance at Point Lookout on 4 Feb. 1864; joined the U.S. Army; assigned to the 1st U.S. Infantry, Company C; hospitalized at Point Lookout with chronic diarhoea through 18 March 1864; mustered into 1st U.S. Infantry, Company C on 1 May 1864.
BRASWELL LEMUEL T., Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 19 on 24 Feb. 1862; captured at Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863; sent to prison in Baltimore, MD, then transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 16 August 1864; died at Point Lookout on 11 Dec. 1863; cause of death not reported.
BRASWELL, PATRICK HENRY, Private
Enlisted at Camp Vance at the age of 18 on 1 Oct. 1862; wounded and “disabled for life” at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct. 1863; reported absent in hospital at Wilson early, 1864; detailed to conscript office at Tarboro through Oct. 1864; hospitalized at Danville, VA on 2 April 1865; confined to the Union prison at Hart’s Island in New York Harbor on 7 April 1865; released at Hart’s Island on 17 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
BRYANT, AUGUSTUS M., Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 26 on the 26 Jan. 1862; captured at the South Side Railroad, near Petersburg on 2 April 1865; confined to the Union prison at Hart’s Island in New York Harbor on 7 April 1865; released at Hart’s Island on 17 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
BRYANT, EVAN, Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 22 on 9 April 1862 as a substitute for another Nash County man; discharged on or about 24 October 1862 with “irritates spinalis.”
BRYANT, EVAN N., 2nd Lieutenant
Enlisted at age 31 on 20 April 1862; mustered in as a Private; became 2nd Lieutenant on June, 1862; resigned on 17 august 1862; reason “pneuralgia of the head;” resignation accepted 11 September 1862.
BRYANT, JOHN W., Captain
Enlisted in Wilson County, NC; elect Captain on 23 January 1862; died of typhoid fever; place of death unknown.
BRYANT, SAMUEL R., Private
Farmer whoenlisted at the age of 31 on 16 Feb. 1862; captured at Petersburg, VA on 25 March 1865; confined at Point Lookout Prison, MD; released on 23 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
BRYANT, WATSON, Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 30 on 12 Feb. 1862; reported present in Jan-Feb, 1863 and Jan-April, 1864; no further records.
BUNN, BENJAMIN HICKMAN, Private
First served as a Private in 30 NC Infantry, Company I; became 3rd Lieutenant and transferred to 47th NC Infantry, Company A; wounded at Gettysburg, July, 1863; promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 14 October 1863; promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 2 June 1864; wounded near Petersburg, VA on 25 March 1865; on 2 April 1865 he started waking home and reached his destination on the day that Lee surrender.
BUNN, BENNETT B., Private
Listed in the Census of 1860 living in Dortches Twp., Nash County at the age of 13; enlisted at Rocky Mt., Edgecombe County, NC on 25 March 1864 which would make him 17 years old; reported sick in hospital at Wilson in Sept.-Oct, 1864; retired in the Invalid Corps on 6 Jan. 1865; paroled at Greensboro on 29 April 1865; United Daughters of the Confederacy records indicate he was wounded at Wilderness, VA, date not specified. [May 3 -4, 1864].
BUNN, JAMES M., Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 43 on 23 Feb. 1862; captured at or near Gettysburg on 5 July 1863 (two days after the battle); hospitalized at Gettysburg; transferred to Union prison in Baltimore, MD, date not given; transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 20 Aug. 1863; paroled at Point Lookout on 16 March 1864, received at City Point, VA on 20 March 1864 in a prisoner exchange; reported sick and absent in Sept. – Oct, 1864; NC pension records indicated he was mortally wounded in VA in 1865.
BURNETT, CALVIN, Private
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 34 on 11 Feb. 1862; captured Bristoe Station, VA, 14 Oct. 1863; confined at the Union prison at Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC on 15 Oct. 1863; transferred to Point Lookout Prison, Maryland, 27 October 1863; died at Point Lookout on 13 February 1865 of “chronic diarrhoea.”
C
CHAMBLEE, AUGUST, Corporal
Farmer who enlisted at the age of 20 on 29 January 1862; mustered in a private; promoted to corporal in May-Oct 1964; wounded – place and date not reported; captured at Hatcher’s Run, VA on 2 April 1865; released at Hart’s Island in New York Harbor on 18 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
CHAMBLEE, WILLIAM, Color Corporal
ENLISTED – 26 Mar 1862 ; AGE – 21; PROMOTED – to Ensign (1st Lt.) on or about 28 Nov 1864. ; WOUNDED – Bristoe Station, VA, DATE – 14 Oct 1863 and again probably at Gettsburg in 1863, RETURNED TO DUTY – prior to 1 Mar. 1864.
COCKRELL, ISAAC V., Private
OCCUPATION – Farmer; ENLISTED – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 24; and DISCHARGED- May, 1863 after recuiting a substitute to go in his place;
COCKRELL, JONATHAN, Private
OCCUPATION – Farmer; ENLISTED – 24 Feb. 1862; AGE – 18; CAPTURED – Gettysburg, 1-3 July 1863; WOUNDED – Gettysburg, 1- 3 July, 1863; DIED – while in captivity, place and date not reported.
COLLINS, EDWARD R., Private
OCCUPATION – Farmer; ENLISTED – 24 Feb. 1862; AGE – 21; DETAILED – after injury to duty in the division commissary on 18 Dec 1863; PAROLED – at or near Richmond on 22 Apr 1865; WOUNDED – Washington, NC in Mar-Apr, 1863, permanently disabled;
COLLINS, NICHOLAS, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 19; DETAILED – as a baker for the brigade on 17 Oct. 1864; PROMOTED – appoint Ensign about 5 Feb. 1865 & transferred to the Field and Staff of the regiment;
COLLINS, THOMAS J., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 23; DIED – in hospital in Petersburg, VA on 10 Jan 1863 of smallpox.
CONE, NEVERSON, Private
ENLISTED – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 18; WOUNDED – in the leg (compound fracture) at Gettysburg, 3 July 1863, CAPTURED – at Gettysburg, 3 DIED – hospitalized at Gettysburg, where he died on 26 Aug 1863 from his wounds.
D
DAVIS, JESSE, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 22 Feb 1862; AGE – 35; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863; CONFINED IN PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC, 15 Oct 1863, then transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 Oct 1863; DIED – Point Lookout Prison, MD on 30 March 1864 of smallpox.
DEANS, JAMES J. E., Sergeant
OCCUPATION – farner; ENLISTED – 29 Jan 1862; AGE- 22; RANK WHEN MUSTERED IN; Sergeant; No further records
DENTON, KELBY
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 23 Feb 1862; AGE- 47; on and off present for duty and absent; last reported in the records of the company on 30 Sept. 1864
DENTON, MOSES, Private
ENLISTED – Orange Court House, VA on 30 April 1864; KILLED – at or near Jones’ Farm, VA on or about 1 Oct 1864.
DODD, RANSOM, T., Corporal
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 1 March 1863; AGE – 18; CAPTURED – Petersburg, 2 April 1865; CONFINED IN PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD on until release ; PROMOTED – to Corporal on 31 Oct 1834; WOUNDED – at Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, RETURNED TO DUTY – 27 Oct 1863. RELEASED – Point Lookout Prison, MD. on 26 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
DOZIER, WILLIAM, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 4 Feb 1862; AGE – 19; CAPTURED – near Petersburg on 2 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD on 2 April 1865; RELEASED: Point Lookout Prison, MD on 26 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
DUNN, WILLIAM A., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 21 Feb 1862 at Battleboro; AGE – 43; DESERTED – prior to Jan 1864; RETURNED TO DUTY – may have by Nov – Dec 1864.
E
EATMAN, IRVIN C., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 10 Mar 1862 in Wilson County; AGE – 18; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA 14 Oct 1863 as well as South Side Railroad, near Petersburg on 2 Apr 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD, second time confined to Hart’s Island Prison, New York Harbor on 7 Apr 1865; RELEASED – Hart’s Island Prison on 17 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America; PROMOTED – Corporal in Mar-Oct, 1863; PRISONER EXCHANGE – received at Varina, VA ON 22 Sept 1864 with chronic diarrhoea and furloughed for 60 days until 4 Oct 1864;
EDWARDS, LEWIS, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 18; DIED – Kinston on 2 April 1862 of disease.
EDWARDS, WILLIAM F., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 11 Feb 1862; AGE – 21; WOUNDED – in the hand at Gettysburg on 1 July 1861, also wounded at Bristoe Station, VA; RETURNED TO DUTY – prior to 14 Oct 1863. INFORMATION IN RECORDS – last report in the records of the company on 14 Dec 1864.
ELLEN, WILLIAM, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer born in Halifax County; ENLISTED – 22 Feb 1862; AGE – 25.; DIED – of disease on 13 April 1862. Place of death not reported.
EURE, ALFRED L., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 23 Jan 1862; AGE – 18; DIED – in Raleigh of disease on 28 May 1862.
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FINCH, BARZILIA B., Private
ENLISTED – 19 Apr 1862; AGE – 25; DIED – Petersburg, VA on 20 Dec 1862 of disease.
FINCH, EDWARD B., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 7 Mar 1862; AGE – 24; CAPTURED – Petersburg on 2 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD ; RELEASED – from Point Lookout Prison on 26 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
FINCH, JOHN, Private
ENLISTED – 1 Oct 1863 for the war; AGE – 40; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863;
CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC; DIED – 26 Nov. 1863 in a hospital in Washington, DC of “febris intermittens” [An intermittent fever, is a febrile disease consisting of distinct attacks, with perfect freedom from fever in the intervals.]
FINCH, JOHN R. J., Private
ENLISTED – 26 Jan 1864 at Orange Court House, VA; AGE – 19; TRANSFERRED – to 7th NC Infantry, Company E on or about 1 Nov 1864; WOUNDED – Battle of the Wilderness, 2 -4 May, 1864.
FINCH, RUFUS B., Private
ENLISTED – at Orange Court House, VA on 9 Mar 1864; DIED – in hospital at Gordonsville, VA on 20 April 1864 of “febris typhoid.”
FINCH, WILLIAM, Private
ENLISTED – 19 Apr 1862; AGE – 19; HOSPITALIZED – at Wilson, NC on 16 Dec 1862, no cause specified and again at Greensboro on date not provided; DETAILED – cook and nurse in hospital in Wilson from 25 May 1863 through Dec 1864; PAROLED; at Greensboro on 29 Apr 1865.
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GARDNER, WILLIAM S., Private
ENLISTED – resided in Edgecombe County, enlisted at Camp Vance on 18 Oct 1862; AGE – 35; CAPTURED – Burgess’ Mill, VA on 27 Oct 1864; CONFINED TO PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD; DESERTED – 23 Dec 1862, returned on 2 Mar 1863, deserted again in 1864 and returned on 27 Sept 1864; PAROLED – Point Lookout Prison, MD 28 Mar 1865; PRISONER EXCHANGE – received at Boulware’s Whart, James River, VA on 30 Mar 1865.
GLOVER, VINE A. J., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 10 Mar 1862 in Wilson County; AGE – 18; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 Oct 1863; RELEASED – Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
GLOVER, WILLIAM A.
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 4 Feb 1862; AGE – 30; Hospitalized at Richmond, VA on 1 May 1864 with rheumatism and chronic scorbutus; furoloughed for thirty days on 6 May 1864; DIED – on or about 20 May 1864 of disease, no place reported.
GLOVER, WILLIAM
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 24 Feb. 1862; AGE – 21; no further records.
GLOVER, YANCEY
ENLISTED – 1 Mar 1863; AGE – 41; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 3 Feb 1864; PAROLED – Point Lookout Prison on 27 Apr 1864; PRISONER EXCHANGE – received at City Point, VA on 30 Apr 1864; Hospitalized at Richmond on or about 25 Dec 1864 with anasarca; furloughed for sixty days on 20 Feb. 1865.
GREEN, MARTIN V. B., Private
ENLISTED – 9 May 1862; AGE – 27; DETAILED – hospital nurse on or about 12 Sept 1863 by reason of impaired motion, rejoined the company on 1 March 1864; WOUNDED – right hand at Gettysburg on 1 July 1863; RETURNED TO DUTY – 1 Sept 1863. Hospitalized at Richmond on 25 July 1864 with chronic diarrhoea; furloughed for thirty days on 10 Aug 1864; returned to duty on or about 9 Sept 1864; last reported in the records on 25 Nov. 1864
GRIFFIN, ABIJAH, Private
ENLISTED – at Camp Vance on 10 Oct 1862; AGE – 36; CAPTURED – South Side Railroad, near Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – to Hart’s Island Prison in New York Harbor on 7 April 1865, released on 17 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America; WOUNDED – at Gettysburg, July 1- 3, 1863, returned to duty on 14 Oct 1863, wounded at Bristoe Station, VA, returned to duty on unspecified date; reported wounded again in Sept. Oct, 1864, date and place not specified. [Another amazing case of survival!]
GRIFFIN, BENJAMIN T., Private
ENLISTED – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 24; reported absent on detached service in July, 1862. No further records. North Carolina pension records indicate that he was wounded on 2 March 1863 plus that he survived the war.
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HOGWOOD, ISHAM, Private
ENLISTED – 19 April 1862; AGE – 30; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA 14 Oct 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC on 15 Oct 1863, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD ON 27 Oct 1863; PAROLED – at Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 April 1864; PRISONER EXCHANGE – received at City Point, VA on 30 April 1864; WOUNDED – in right hip at Burgess’ Mill, VA on 27 Oct 1864, hospitalized in Richmond, transferred on 9 Dec 1864, released after he took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America in Raleigh on 3 June 1865.
HALL, JOSEPH T., Private ENLISTED – after 31 Oct 1864; CAPTURED – Jarratt’s Station, VA on 2 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – Hart’s Island, New York Harbor on 7 April 1865; DIED – Hart’s Island on 27 May 1865 of “typhoid pneumonia.”
HENDERSON, ANDREW J., Private
ENLISTED – resided and enlisted in Halifax County, NC on23 Apr 1862; AGE – 28; CAPTURED – wounded and captured at Gettysburg on 3 July 1863, Captured at Burgess’ Mill,VA on 27 Oct 1864; CONFINED TO PRISON – at Fort Delaware, DE on or about 7 July 1863, after captured at Burgess’ Mill he was confined at Point Lookout Prison, MD on 31 Oct 1864; PAROLED – at Point Lookout Prison on 28 Mar 1865; PRISONER EXCHANGE – received at Boulware’s Wharf, James River, VA on 30 March 1865.
HOGWOOD, RUFFIN J., Private
ENLISTED – 10 April 1862; AGE – 18; REPORTED – absent on detached service in July, 1862; DIED – at hospital in Petersburg on 19 Oct 1862, of “pneumonia” and/or “pertussis.”
HOPKINS, WHITMELL, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 39; no further records.
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JONES, BARTLEY, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 6 March 1862 as a substitute for another Nash County man; AGE – 17; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC on 15 Oct 1863, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD; PAROLED – from Point Lookout Prison on or about 20 Feb 1864; PRISONER EXCHANGE: received at Aiken’s Landing, James River, VA on or about 3 March 1865, hospitalized in Richmond, VA; DIED – in Richmond hospital on or about 12 March 1865, no cause of death reported.
JONES, SIMON, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – at “Sunny South” in Nash County on 8 Feb 1862; AGE – 27; DETAILED – Engineer Corps on 10 June 1863, report absent from Corps up to Oct 1864; SURRENDERED – at Appomattox on 9 April 1865.
JOYNER, CASWELL A., Private
ENLISTED – in Wake County, NC on 19 Jan 186-; CAPTURED – at Burgess; Mill, VA on 27 Oct 1864; CONFINED TO PRISON – at Point Lookout Prison, MD on 31 Oct 1864; PRISONER EXCHANGE – received at Boulware’s Wharf, James River, VA on or about 20 Feb 1865; PAROLED – at Point Lookout Prison on 18 Feb 1865; PREVIOUS SERVICE – may have serve previously in Company F, Mallett’s Battalion (Camp Guard).
JOYNER, CASWELL H., Private
ENLISTED – 15 May 1862; AGE – 30; DIED – in hospital in Petersburg, VA on or about 9 Nov 1862, of “pleuritis.”
JOYNER, ELI, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 22; WOUNDED – wounded in the side at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863; DIED – near Gettysburg Battlefield on 6 July 1863 from his wounds.
JOYNER, GILBERT, Private
ENLISTED: May, 1862. No further records
JOYNER, JOHN H., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 18; WOUNDED – hospitalized in Richamond on or about28 March 1865, with a shell wound in his right side. No further records.
JOYNER, JORDAN, Private
ENLISTED – 30 April 1862; AGE – 34; DIED – of disease on 8 July 1862, place not reported.
JOYNER, KINCHEN E., Private
ENLISTED – 30 April 1862; AGE – 18; WOUNDED – in both hips at Gettysburg on 3 July 1863, at Bristoe Station,VA on 14 Oct 1863; DISEASE – reported sick in Sept. – Oct, 1864; CAPTURED – near Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD until his release after taking the Oalth of Allegiance to the United States of America.
JOYNER, WILLIAM R., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTED – born in Wilson County, lived in Nash, enlisted on 24 Feb 1865;
AGE – 21; CONFINED TO PRISON – after Fallings Waters, MD capture and confined in Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 8 Aug 1863; PAROLED – at Point Lookout Prison on 18 Sept 1864; PRISONER EXCHANGE: received at Varina, VA on 22 Sept 1864; return to duty on 31 Oct 1864; CAPTURED – at Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863, Petersburg on 2 April 1865, confined at Point Lookout, released at Point Lookout after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
JOYNER, WILLIE W., Private
ENLISTED – 30 April 1862; DIED – in a hospital in Petersburg on or about 7 November 1862, of “pleuitis.”
JULIAN, LINDSAY
North Carolina pension records indicate he was in the 47th NC Infantry, Company A; no military record; the U. S. Census of 1860 lists him as a 20 year old farm laborer living in Randolph County, NC., thus he was about 22 years old when he enlisted probably in Nash County; the Census of 1870 lists him as a 30 year old farmer living in Frankinville Township, Randolph County, NC; thus, he survived the war.
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LAMM, HUELL, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – born in Wayne County, lived in Nash, enlisted on 17 Feb 1862; AGE – 33; DISCHARGED – May, 1862 due to disability.
LAMM, JACOB, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – born in Wayne County, enlisted in Nash on 17 Feb 1861; AGE – 30; no further record; may have previously served as a private in 30th NC Infantry, Compnay I
LAMM, JOSHUA, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – born in Wayne, enlisted in Nash on 30 January 1862 ; AGE – 40; DIED – near Kinston on April 6 or 16th, 1862 of disease.
LAMM STEPHEN L., Private
ENLISTMENT – born in Wayne, enlished in Nash on 10 April 1862; AGE – 26; WOUNDED – in the wrist at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863, reported in the hospital in Wilson, NC on Jan – Feb, 1864; DETAILED – the quartermaster department at Tarboro, NC on or about 3 April 1864, retired to the Invalid Corps on 15 Dec 1864.
LAMM, THOMAS, Private
ENLISTMENT – resided in Wilson County, NC, enlished in Nash on 10 April 1862; AGE – 37; CAPTURED – Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD then transferred to Elmira, NY on 12 June 1865 from which he was released after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
LAMM, WILLIAM M., Private
ENLISTMENT – 30 April 1862; AGE – 24; WOUNDED – in both thighs and captured at Gettysburg, PA on July 3 – 4, 1863; hospitalized at Gettysburg, transferred to hospital at Davids Island, New York Harbor where he arrived on or abou 20 July 1863; paroled at Davids Island and transferred, in a prisoner exchange to City Point, VA, where he was received on 27 Sept. 1863; reported in hospital at Wilson, NC in Jan – Feb, 1864, returned to duty in Mar – April, 1864; KILLED – at or near Petersburg on a unreported date.
LEWIS, DULA, Private
ENLISTMENT – 18 Oct 1862; AGE – 18; DIED – Camp French on or about 24 Nov 1862, of “measles” and “pneumonia,” he “went out & was chilled, the eruption immediately disappeared & pneumonia supervened.”
LEWIS, ELBERT C., Private OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 25 Jan 1862; AGE – 42; CAPTURED – near Petersburg on 2 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD until his release on 29 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
LEWIS, GILBERT, Private
ENLISTMENT – resided in Nash County, enlisted in Wilson County on 15 May 1862; AGE – 21; KILLED – Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863.
LEWIS, GILLIAM, Private
ENLISTMENT – lived in Nash County, enlisted in Wilson County on 15 May 1862; AGE – 19; WOUNDED – Gettysburg, July 1 – 3, 1863, home on furlough Jan – Feb, 1864 & Sept. – Oct, 1864; SURRENDERED – at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
LEWIS, HENDERSON, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – born in Nash, enlisted in Wayne on 10 Mar 1862; AGE – 23; DIED – on 9 Dec 1862, place of death not reported.
LILES, WILLIAM, Private
ENLISTMENT – resided in either Nash or Wilson, enlished in Wilson, NC on 15 May 1862; AGE – 34; DISEASE – reported sick and absent in Jan – April, 1864; CAPTURED – Burgess’ Mill, VA, 27 Oct 1864; CONFINED TO PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD on 31 Oct 1864; PRISONER EXCHANGE – received at Boulware’s Wharf, James River, VA on 30 March 1865; PAROLED – at Point Lookout Prison on 28 March 1865 and again on 16 May 1865 at Goldsboro,NC.
LINDSEY, WILLIAM A., rank not specified
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 11 Feb 1862; AGE – 27; no further records; he may have later served in the 30th NC Infantry, Company I.
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MANNING, JOSEPH, Private
ENLISTMENT – lived in Nash County, enlished in Wilson County on 15 May 1862; AGE – 18; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC on 15 Oct 1863, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 Oct 1863; PAROLED – at Point Lookout on 13 Feb 1865; PRISONER EXCHANGE – received Cox’s Wharf, James River, VA on or about 14 Feb 1865.
MATTHEWS, CASWELL David, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 33; CAPTURED – Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Baltimore, MD, the to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 21 Aug 1863; OATH OF ALLEGIANCE: took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America on 24 Feb 1864, joined the 1st Regiment U.S. Volunteer Infantry; reported for duty with that unit on or abou1 May 1864.
MITCHELL, HILLIARD, Corporal
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – born in Wake County and enlisted in Nash County on 28 Jan 1862, mustered in as a corporal; AGE – 43; last reported in the records on 30 Sept 1863; he may have served later as a Private in Caption Jackson Jones’s Independent Company (Supporting Force), North Carolina Troops; North Carolina pension records indicate he survived the war.
MITCHELL, JESSE, Private
ENLISTMENT – lived in Nash and enlisted at Orange Count House, VA on 1 Nov 1863; AGE – 17; CAPTURED – at Petersburg on 2 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – at Point Lookout Prison, MD until his release after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
MORGAN, JAMES, Private
ENLISTMENT – place and date not listed, probably after 31 Oct 1864; SURRENDERED – at Appomattox on 9 April 1865.
MORGAN, JOHN H., Private
ENLISTMENT – on 9 May 1862; AGE – 19; reported present in Jan-Feb 1863 and Sept-Oct, 1864; SURRENDERED – at Appomattox on 9 April 1865; WOUNDED – North Carolina pension records indicate that he was wounded in the right foot at Petersburg in 1864.
MORGAN, KERNEY, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 23 Feb 1862; AGE – 24; WOUNDED – hospitalized in Richmond on 26 Aug 1864 with a gunshot wound to his right leg, North Carolina pension records indicate that he survived the war.
MORGAN, WILEY, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 23 Feb 1862; AGE – 25; reported absent on detached service in July, 1862 DIED – in hospital in Wilson, NC on 24 Sept 1862 of “febris typhoides.”.
MORGAN, WILLIAM R., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 7 March 1862; AGE – 17; CAPTURED – at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct. 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC on 15 Oct 1863, transferred to Point Lookout Prison on or about 25 Jan 1864, after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States he joined the U. S. Army, assigned to Company D, 1st Regiment U. S. Volunteer Infantry.
MORRIS, JOHN R., Private
ENLISTMENT – lived in Nash County or Wake County, enlisting on 1 March 1863; AGE – 35; CAPTURED – Falling Waters, MD, 14 July 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – sent to Baltimore, MD, confined at Point Lookout Prison, MD on 17 Aug 1863, transferred to Elmira, NY on 16 Aug 1864; RELEASED – at Elmira Prison on 19 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
MOYE, THOMAS H., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – born in Franklin, lived in Nash County enlisting on 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 28; DISCHARGED – due to disability on 19 Aug 1862, may have served later as a Private in Company H of the 10th Regiment N.C. State Troops (1st Regiment N.C. Artillery).
MURRAY, JOHN W., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – born in Franklin County, lived in Nash County enlisting on 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 25; DESERTED – prior to 1 Aug 1862.
MURRAY, SAMUEL C., Private
Place and date of enlistment not reported; reported absent on detached service in July, 1862. No further records.
MURRAY, WILLIAM D., Private OCCUPATION – mechanic; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 24; CAPTURED – Falling Rivers, MD on 14 July 1863, captured a second time at Jarratt’s Station, VA on 2 April 1865, confined at Hart’s Island, New York Habor on 7 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – sent to Baltimore, MD, the confined at Point Lookout Prison on 17 Aug 1863; PRISONER EXCHANGE – received at Aiken’s Landing, James River, VA on 8 May 1864; PAROLED – at Point Lookout on 3 May 1864; RELEASED – at Hart’s Island on 17 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
MURRAY, WILLIAM G.
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – born in Franklin County and resided in Nash County enlisting on 23 Feb 1862; AGE – 22; WOUNDED – at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863, repored absent wounded in hospital in Wilson, NC in Sept-Oct, 1864, returned to duty on or about 1 Nov. 1864; SURRENDERED – at Appomattox on 9 April 1865 .
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O’NEAL, JAMES B., Private
ENLISTMENT – 25 April 1863; AGE – 24; CAPTURED – at Gettysburg, PA on or near 3 July 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Fort Delaware Prison, DE on or about 7 July 1863, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on Oct 15 – 18, 1863; PRISONER EXCHANGE – paroled at Point Lookout on 18 Feb 1865, received at Boulware’s Wharf, James River, VA on or about 20 Feb 1865; HOSPITALIZED: at Richmond on 28 Feb 1865 and at hospital at Farmville, VA on 11 April 1865.
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PAGE, O., Private
Place and date of enlistment not reported, probably enlisted before 31 Oct 1864; paroled at Goldsboro, NC on 9 May 1865.
PAGE, THEOPHILUS, Private
Previously served at Private in 7th North Carolina Infantry, Company E; transferred tothis company on 1 Dec 1864; no further records.
PAGE, THOMAS, Private
Resided in Nash or Wilson County and enlisted in Wilson County, NC at the age of 30 on 15 May 1862; reported present on Jan-Feb, 1863, January-April, 1864 and Sept. Oct, 1864; paroled at Goldsboro, NC on an unspecified date in 1865.
PATTERSON, ELIJAH WILLIAM, Private
OCCUPATION – mechanic; ENLISTMENT – 25 Feb 1862; AGE – 25; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 Oct 1863; PRISONER EXCHANGE – paroled at Point Lookout on 3 May 1864, received at Aiken’s Landing, James River, VA; reported present Sept – Oct, 1864; DETAILED – as the regimental baker on 17 Oct 1864; SURRENDERED – at Appomattox on 9 April 1865.
PATTERSON, SIDNEY S., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – born in Chatham County, lived in Nash, enlisted 12 Feb 1863; AGE – 43; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC on 15 Oct 1863, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 Oct 1863; PRISONER EXCHANGE – paroled at Point Lookout on 10 Feb 1865, received at Cox’s Wharf, James River on or about 14 Feb 1865; HOSPITALIZED – in Richmond on 15 Feb 1865; DIED – near Richmond, VA on or about 26 Feb 1865.
PEARCE, WILLIAM SIMON, rank not reported
North Carolina pension records indicate he serve in this company
PERRY, JAMES A., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 19; WOUNDED – in the thigh and captured at Gettysburg on or about 3 July 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Ft. Delaware Prison, DE on or about 9 July 1863, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on or about 15 October 1863; PRISONER EXCHANGE – exchanged on 24 Feb. 1865.
PERRY, JOHN F., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – enlisted at “Stoney Hill” on 23 Jan 1862; AGE – 47; DESERTED – on 27 July 1863, returned on 11 Nov 1863, court martialed at unreported datem reported absent “on hard labor” from 1 Mar 1864 to 18 June 1864; DISCHARGED – on 27 Jan 1865 by reason of “being over forty-five years of age and having served out his term.”
PERRY, JONAS, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 23 Jan 1862; AGE – 36; REPORTED: – present on Jan-Feb, 1863 and 1864, no further military records.
PERRY, SIDNEY, no rank recorded
North Carolina Pension Records indicate that he served in this company; may have served also as a private in Company A, 1st Regiment NC Junior Reserves.
PERRY, WESTERN H., Corporal
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 23 Jan 1864; AGE – 19, mustered in as a Sergeant, reduced to Corporal on 1 Mar 1863, present and accounted for on Jan-Feb, 1863, Jan-April 1864 & Sept-Oct, 1864; SURRENDERED – at Appomattox on 9 April 1865, postwar records indicate that he was wounded at Petersburg, VA, date not reported.
POWELL, NEWSOM, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer who was born in Franklin, resided in Nas; ENLISTMENT – 23 Feb 1862; AGE – 33; DIED – in hospital in Goldsboro, NC of “typhoid pneumonia” on 23 Feb 1863.
PUCKETT, EMERSON, Private
OCCUPATION -farmer ; ENLISTMENT – 12 Feb 1862; AGE – 31; KILLED – Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863;
PUCKETT, JAMES A., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 28 Jan 1862; AGE – 18; HOSPITALIZED: 25 April 1864 from unspecified complaint; CAPTURED – South Side Railroad,near Petersburg on 3 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – at Hart’s Island, New York Harbor, 7 April 1865, released at Hart’s Island on 17 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America, NC pension records indicated that he was wounded in the leg at the Potomac River in 1863.
PULLEN, WILLIAM C., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – born in Johnston County, enlisted in Nash on 2 Feb 1862; AGE – 19; KILLED – at Petersburg, VA on 2 Oct 1864.
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RACKLEY, FREDERICK, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 19; DIED – near Kinston, NC on 30 March 1862 of disease.
RICE, A. S., no rank specified
Post war records indicate thathe resided in Nash County and enlisted in this company May, 1862 for the war; no further records.
RICE, BERRY, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 16 May 1862; AGE – 24; DIED – Nash County on 28 June 1862 of typhoid fever.”
RICE, GERALDUS, Prive
ENLISTMENT – Not reported, first appears in company records on 31 Oct 1864; CAPTURED – Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – Hart’s Island, New York Harbor on 7 April 1865, released Hart’s Island on 17 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
RICE, THOMAS B., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 4 May 1862; AGE – 22; DIED – Goldsboro, NC on 10 June 1862 of typhoid fever.
RILEY, WILLIAM, Private
ENLISTMENT – Camp Mangum, near Raleigh on 14 May 1862 for the war as a substitute for another Nash County man; AGE – 42; WOUNDED – both thighs at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863; HOSPITALIZED – Farmville, VA on 10 April 1865 with a gunshot wound to the right thigh; PAROLED; prior to 22 April 1865.
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SELLERS, SAMUEL H., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – at “Sunny South” on 8 Feb 1862; AGE – 32 (corrected by Jack Sellers, Houston, TX); WOUNDED – in the abdomen and captured at Gettysburg, PA on or about 3 July 1863; DIED: on or near Gettysburg on or about the same date.
STOTT, JOHN, Private
ENLISTMENT – not reported, probably after 31 Oct 1864; PAROLED – at Greensboro, NC on 20 May 1865; no further record listed.
STOTT, WILLIAMS E., Sergeant, mustered in as a private, up through the ranks; OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 3 March 1862; AGE – 24; DETAILED – was a musician prior to 1 March 1863; PROMOTED – to sergeant in March, 1863 – April, 1864; DISEASE – reported sick in hospital in Wilson, NC in Sept. – Oct, 1864; SURRENDERED – at Appomattox on 9 April 1865;
STRICKLAND, BRYANT, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 23 Feb 1862; AGE – 27; DETAILED – as a nurse and a guard at Richmond, VA (the site of the highest concentration of Confederate hospitals), from Sept, 1863 through Dec 1864; no further records.
STRICKLAND, BRYANT P., Private
ENLISTMENT – 12 May 1862; AGE – 25; CAPTURED – at Gettysburg, PA on or about 3 July 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – at Ft. Henry Prison, Baltimore, MD on 6 July 1863, transferredto Ft. Deleware Prison, DE prior to 1 Aug 1863; DIED – Ft. Delaware on 27 Jan 1864 of “erysipelas.”.
STRICKLAND, FRANCIS K. W., Private
ENLISTMENT – 1 March 1863; AGE – 35; DIED – 12 May 1863.
STRICKLAND, JAMES L., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 23 Jan 1863; AGE – 19; PRESENT – Jan-Feb 1863, Jan-April, 1864 & Sept-Oct, 1864: SURRENDERED – at Appomattox on 9 April 1865;
STRICKLAND, JAMES M., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 42; DIED – in hospital in Wilson, NC on 31 March 1863 of “pneumonia” and/or “typhoid fever.”
STRICKLAND, JOHN R., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 26; DESERTED – attempted to desert on 12 Dec 1862, but was caught and brought back to camp the next day; PRESENT – Jan-Feb, 1863 & Jan-Feb 1863; DISEASE – reported sick in quarters in March-April 1864; CAPTURED – at Burgess Mill, VA on 27 Oct 1864; CONFINED TO PRISON – at Point Lookout Prison, MD, where he died on 7 Dec 1864 of “remittent fever”;
STRICKLAND, JOHN W., Private
ENLISTMENT – 12 Dec 1862; AGE – 21; DIED – on 14 April 1862, no further report.
STRICKLAND, JOSIAH HAYWOOD, Private
ENLISTMENT – at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh on 15 May 1862; AGE – 23; DETAILED – as a hospital nurse at Wilson NC from 28 Oct 1862 through Feb 1863; then as a guard at Charlotte from 8 July 1863 through 31 March 1864; CAPTURED – Petersburg on 2 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – Hart’s Island Prison, New York Harbor, 7 April 1865; RELEASED – Hart’s Island after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
STRICKLAND, LEMON, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 18 Feb 1862; AGE – 18; REPORTED PRESENT – Jan-Feb 1863, Jan-April, 1864 & Sept-Oct, 1864; CAPTURED – Petersburg, VA on 3 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – Hart’s Island Prison, New York Harbor on 7 April 1865; RELEASED – Hart’s Island on 17 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
STRICKLAND, MARCUS T., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 23 Feb 1862; AGE – 20; KILLED – Gettysburg, PA on or about 3 July 1863.
STRICKLAND, MORDECAI, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 10 March 1862; AGE – 19; REPORTED – absent on detached service in July, 1862; DIED – of disease on 31 March 1863, place of death not reported.
STRICKLAND, WILLIAM, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 10 March 1862; AGE – 30; DISEASE – sent to hospital on 19 March 1862, with an unspecified complaint, returned to duty prior to 1 March 1863; CAPTURED – at North Anna River, VA on 23 May 1864; CONFINED TO PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD, date not specified; PRISONER EXCHANGE – paroled at Point Lookout Prison, MD on 30 May 1864, received at Cox’s Wharf, James River, VA on or about 15 Feb 1865; FURLOUGHED – on 25 Feb 1865.
STRICKLAND, WRIGHT S., rank not given
Postwar records indicate that he resided in Nash County, NC and enlisted in this company in May, 1862, for the war.
STRUG, THOMAS, Private
Resided in Mecklenburg; place and date of enlisted not reported, it was subsequent to 31 Oct 1864; captured at Appomattox River, VA on 3 April 1865, confined at Hart’s Island Prison, New York Harbor on 11 April 1865; released on 19 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
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TAYLOR, ARCHIBALD, Private
ENLISTMENT – resided in Nash, enlisted in Wilson County on 15 May 1862; AGE – 19; CAPTURED –Burgess’ Mill,VA on 27 Oct 1864; CONFINED TO PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD on 31 Oct 1864; RELEASED – Point Lookout Prison, MD after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
TAYLOR, WILLIAM, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 19; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC on 15 Oct 1863, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 Oct 1863; PRISONER EXCHANGE – paroled at Point Lookout Prison on or about 24 February 1864, received for exchange prior to 4 March 1865.
THORPE, JOHN HOUSTON, 1st Lieutenant
Corporal in 1st NC Regiment, Company I for six months (1861) prior to becoming as 1st Lieutenant on 1 March 1861; Surrendered at Appomattox, 9 April 1865; known as a quiet outstanding soldier.
TISDALE, WREN Q., Private
ENLISTMENT – on 20 May 1863; AGE – 27; WOUNDED – right leg at Gettysburg, PA on or about 3 July 1863; CAPTURED – at Gettysburg, PA on or about the same date, 3 July 1863; HOSPITALIZED – at Gettysburg and transferred to a hospital aat Baltimore, MD arriving on 26 July 1863, hospitalized at Petersburg, VA; PRISONER EXCHANGE – received at City Point, VA on 29 August 1863; FURLOUGHED – for sixty days on 29 August 1863; RELEASED – after capture at an unspecified place and date, released at Hart’s Island Prison, New York Harbor on 19 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
TOLBERT, WILLIAM, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 22 Feb 1862; AGE – 27; PRESENT – in 1863 and 1964;
WOUNDED – Roll of Honor indicates that he was wounded in an unspecified battle; DIED – in hospital in Richmond on 15 June 1864 of “chronic gastritis.”.
TURNER, JOHN, Private
OCCUPATION -farmer; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 17; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC on 15 Oct 1863, transferred to Point Lookout, MD on 27 October 1863; PRISONER EXCHANGE – paroled at Point Lookout on 13 Feb 1865, received at Cox’s Wharf, James River, VA on 15 Feb 1865.
TURNER, WILLIAM M., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 19; DIED – in hospital at Wilson, NC on 10 May 1863 of “febris typhus.”
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UPCHURCH, J. C. no rank reported
North Carolina pension recoreds indicate that he served in this company.
UPCHURCH, O. P., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 22; DIED – in hospital at Goldsboro, NC on or about 27 June 1862 of disease.
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VAUGHN, JOHN W.
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 10 Feb 1862; HOSPITALIZED – sent to hospital on 31 Dec 1863, probably suffering from chronic diarrhoea, reported in hospital in Jan-Feb, 1864. DISCHARGED – on 4 April 1864, reasons not reported.
VICK, ABEL J., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 2 Feb 1862; AGE – 18; DIED – on 24 June 1862, probably from disease.
VICK, HUDSON, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 45; DISCHARGED – in 1862, probably from being overage, later served as a Private in Captain D. W. Williams’s Compnay, 3rd Battalion North Carolina Senior Reserves.
VICK, JOHN, Private
ENLISTMENT – resided in Nash County, enlisted in Pitt on 30 April 1863; AGE – 46; CAPTURED – Burgess Mill, VA on 27 Oct 1864; CONFINED TO PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD on 31 Oct 1864; PRISONER EXCHANGE – paroled at Point Lookout on 17 Jan 1865, received at Boulware’s Wharf, James River, VA on 21 January 1865.
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WARD, JOHN Q. A., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 10 Feb 1862; AGE – 40; CAPTURED – Bristoe Station, VA on 14 Oct 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC on 15 Oct 1863, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 27 Oct 1863; PRISONER EXCHANGE – paroled Point Lookout on 24 Feb 1865, received for exchange on or about 25 Feb 1865, hospitalized in Richmond, VA on that date; FURLOUGHED – for sixty days on 29 March 1865 ( great timing).
WARD, W. H., Private
OCCUPATION – no information; ENLISTMENT – subsequent to 31 Oct 1864; CAPTURED – Hatcher’s Run, VA on 2 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – Hart’s Island Prison, New York Harbor on 7 April 1865; DIED – at Hart’s Island on 9 June 1865, no cause identified, may have served previously as a Private in Company A, 1st Regiment N. C. Junior Reserves.
WARREN, SEYMOUR, Corporal
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 5 March 1862; AGE – 21; WOUNDED – at Gettysburg, PA on July 1 – 3, 1863, wounded again at Cold Harbor, VA 3 June 1864, left leg amputated, retired to the Invalid Corps on 23 Sept. 1864.
WARREN, WILLIS M., Sergeant
ENLISTMENT – 15 May 1862, mustered in a Private; AGE – 19; DISEASE – reported sick in hospital in Wilson, NC on 27 Feb 1863, promoted to Corporal on 31 Dec 1863; WOUNDED – at Reams’ Station, VA on or about 25 August 1863, reported absent wounded through 26 Oct 1864, promoted to Sergeant prior to 1 Nov 1864; SURRENDERED – at Appomattox, VA on 9 April 1865.
WEAVER, CASWELL., no rank provided
Post war records indicate that he resided in Nash County and enlisted in this company in May, 1864, for the war, no further records
WEBB, JAMES T., Private
ENLISTMENT – place and date not reported, probably subsequent to 31 Oct 1864; CAPTURED – Hatcher’s Run, VA on 2 April 1865; CONFINED TO PRISON – Hart’s Island, New York Harbor on 7 April 1865; RELEASED – at Hart’s Island on 18 June 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
WELLS, JOEL, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 14 Feb 1862, reported for duty as a wagoner in July, 1862; AGE – 23; CAPTURED – Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863; CONFINED TO PRISON – Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC on 24 July 1863, transferred to Point Lookout Prison, MD on 23 Aug 1863; PRISONER EXCHANGE – paroled at Point Lookout on 30 Oct 1864, received at Venus Point, Savannah River, GA on 15 Nov 1864, no further record.
WESTRAY, GEORGE W., 2nd Lieutenant, 47th NC Infantry, Company A
First served as a Private in 1st NC Infantry, Company I; became 2nd Lieutenant on 25 June 1862; fought near Washington, NC on 30-31 March 1863; WOUNDED IN THE ARM AND GROIN AT GETTYSBURG ON 1 JULY 1863; return to duty on 14 October 1863; furloughed on 3 November 1863; KILLED AT COLD HARBOR, VA on 2 June 1864.
WESTRY, JEREMIAH P., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – resided in Nash, enlisted in Wake on 13 March 1862; AGE – 23; DETAILED – a hospital nurse at Petersburg, VA on 23 Oct 1862, reported on detail at Petersburg through Feb 1863, promoted Sergeant prior to 1 March 1863; KILLED – in The Wilderness, VA, May 3 – 6, 1864.
WESTRAY, THOMAS, 3rd Lieutenant, 47th NC Infantry, Company A
Became a 3rd Lieutenant on 23 December 1863; hospitalized in Richmond on 8 September 1864 from a gunshot wound on upper part of right thigh; furloughed for sixty days on 25 September 1864; surrendered at Appomattox on 9 April 1865.
WESTRAY, ZACHARIAH T., Sergeant
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 29 Jan 1862, promoted to Sergeant prior to 1 March 1863; WOUNDED – at Gettysburg, PA, July 1 – 3, 1863, returned to duty on 1 Sept 1863, reduced ranks prior to 1 Oct 1863; HOSPITALIZED – at Richmond, VA on 19 Oct 1863, transferred on 22 Oct 1862, no further record.
WHITAKER, HENRY, no rank given
Post war records indicate that he resided in Nash County and enlisted in this company in June, 1863, for the war, no further records.
WHITLEY, BENJAMIN R. M., Private
ENLISTMENT – 10 May 1862; AGE – 25; DETAILED; served as a teamster during most of the war SURRENDERED – at Appomattox on 9 April 1865.
WHITLEY, HAYWOOD S., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 22 Jan 1862; AGE – 26; DESERTED – on an unspecified date which was probably prior to 1 Jan 1863;
WHITLEY, JOHN, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 12 Feb 1862; AGE – 23; DIED – on 9 May 1862 of disease, place of death not reported.
WHITLEY, PERRY, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 24 Feb 1862; AGE – 40; DESERTED – attempted to desert on 12 Dec 1862 but was caught and brought back to camp the next day; CAPTURED – at Burgess’ Mill, VA on 27 Oct 1864; CONFINED TO PRISON – Point Lookout Prison, MD on 31 Oct 1864; DIED – at Point Lookout Prison. MD of “scurvy.”.
WHITLEY, WILLIAM J. D., Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – 23 Feb 1862; PRESENT – in 1863 and 1864; AGE – 32; DETAILED – apparently served as a wagoner or as a provost guard during most of the war.
WILLIAMS, WESLEY, Private
OCCUPATION – farmer; ENLISTMENT – born in Halifax, resided in Nash, enlisted on 24 Feb 1862; DIED – in North Carolina on 10 May 1862 of disease.
WINBORNE, WILLIAM H., Private
ENLISTMENT – resided in Nash County, enlisted in Wilson on 15 April 1862; AGE – 28; TRANSFERRED – to 47th North Carolina Infantry, Company D on 1 Sept 1862; no further record.
WINSTEAD. J.B., Assistant Surgeon, 47th NC Infantry, Company A
Assistant Surgeon, 47 N.C. Infantry about 8 April 1862; resigned 5 July 1862.
UPCOMING:
47TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COMPANY D: ROSTER
30th NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY, COMPANY I: ROSTER
SOURCES:
Jordon, Jr., Weymouth T., compiler, NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS, 1861 – 1865: A ROSTER. Volume XI Infantry – 45th – 48th Regiments. Unit Histories by Louis H. Manarin. [Raleigh, NC: Division of Archives and History, 1987]. 47th NC Infantry, Company A listed from pages 247 – 261.
Moore, John W., ROSTER OF NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES, Volume 1. [Raleigh, NC: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Binders, Presses of Edwards, Broughton and Company, 1882. 47th NC Infantry, Company A listed from pages 325 – 329.
A FEW OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BATTLES IN WHICH THE 47TH NC INFANTRY, COMPANY A FOUGHT:
The Battle of Falling Waters
July 14, 1863 in Falling Waters, Maryland
[from: http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/630714.htm]
Union Forces
Commanded by:
Maj. Gen. George B. Mead
Confederate Forces Commanded by:
Gen. Robert E. Lee and Maj. Gen. Henry Heth
719 men captured including the following Nash County Men fighting in 47th NC Infantry, Company A: Private WILLIAM T. BASS (died in Point Lookout Prison, MD); Private JORDAN W. E. BATCHELOR; Private JACKSON J. BISSETT; Private WILLIAM BOON; Private LEMUEL T. BRASWELL (died at Point Lookout Prison, MD); Private WILLIAM R. JOYNER; Private THOMAS LAMM; Private CASWELL DAVID MATTHEWS; Private JOHN R. MORRIS; Private WILLIAM D. MURRAY; and Private JOEL WELLS
Conclusion: Inconclusive Victory
BATTLE SUMMARY
The Confederate retreat from Gettysburg began on July 4th as the defeated Army of Northern Virginia wearily filled the Pennsylvania and Maryland roads for 3 days, its wagon train of wounded alone stretching for 17 miles. Heavy downpours hampered the march, but Gen. Robert E. Lee’s confederates reached the Potomac River at Willaimsport, Maryland on the afternoon of the 6th and continued to arrive into the morning hours of the 7th.
Since the rains had swelled the river, making it unfordable, Lee ordered the construction of pontoon bridges while his infantry and artillery erected a defensive line from Williamsport to Falling Waters. Little occured except for cavalry clashes and skirmishes until the 12th, when Maj. Gen. George B. Meade’s pursuing Army of the Potomac arrived opposite the Confederate position. The Federals, battered at Gettysburg as badly as the Confederates, simply entrenched before the Confederate works.
By the next day the Potomac was passable at Williamsport, and the Confederate engineers had completed the pontoon bridge at Falling Waters. Lee ordered the retreat. Under the cover of darkness, the Confederates crossed to Virginia in a skillfully executed move, and by 11:00 A.M. the next morning, all units had reached the south bank except for 2 divisions at Falling Waters.
Meade, meanwhile, had ordered a reconnaissance in force for 7:00 A.M. on the 14th. The advancing Federals found only abandoned works at Williamsport, while at Falling Waters the 2 Confederate divisions lay encamped over a mile from the river. Maj. Gen. John Buford’s and Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick’s cavalry divisions led the Union advance at Falling Waters. Buford, approaching from the north, charged first.
Before his assault could develop, however, Kilpatrick permitted 2 small squadrons to attack the surprised Confederates of Maj. Gen. Henry Heth’s division. In the melee, the Confederates, using rifles, fence rails, and axes, unhorsed most of these Union cavalrymen. Alerted, the Confederates fought stubbornly when Kilpatrick attacked with strength and Buford struck from the east. Before the 2 Confederate divisions could cross, they lost 719 officers and men as prisoners and abandoned 2 cannon. Their most grevious loss was Brig. Gen. James J. Pettigrew, who was mortally wounded in the initial attack.
Because of the Union failure to destroy the Confederate army, Union generals exaggerated considerably the Confederates losses at Falling Waters. The Union cavalry had only surprised Heth’s soldiers, inflicting minimal casualties.
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BATTLE OF BRISCOE STATION, VA – 14 October 1863
[numerous men from Nash County fighting in the 47th North Carolina Infantry, Company A were captured, imprisoned and some died in prison as a result of Lt. Gen. A. P. Hill’s mistakes in this battle}
CONFEDERATE FORCES
Commanded by:
Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill
KILLED, WOUNDED AND CAPTURED
136 men killed
797 men wounded including the following Nash County men fighting in the 47th NC Infantry, Company A. – Sergeant JOHN JESTON BARNHILL; Private MANOAH BISSETT; Color Corporal WILLIAM M. CHAMBLEE; Private WILLIAM F. EDWARDS; Private ABIJAH GRIFFIN; Private KINCHEN E. JOYNER; Private WILLIAM G. MURRAY; and 1ST Lieutenant GEORGE W. WESTRAY (wounded in the right thigh).
445 men captured including the following Nash County men fighting in the 47th NC Infantry, Company A – Private RICHARD B. BATCHELOR; Private WRIGHT S. BATCHELOR; Private LOVETT BOYKIN; Private CALVIN BURNETT (DIED IN POINT LOOKOUT PRISON, MD); Private JESSE DAVIS; Private IRVIN C. EATMAN; Private JOHN FINCH; Private VINE A. J. GLOVER; Private YANCEY C. GLOVER; Private ISHAM HAGWOOD; Private BARTLEY JONES; Private JOSEPH MANNING; Private WILLIAM R. MORGAN; Private ELIJAH WILLIAM PATTERSON; Private SIDNEY S. PATTERSON; Private WILLIAM TAYLOR; Private JOHN TURNER; and Private JOHN Q. WARD.
Conclusion: Union Victory
BATTLE SUMMARY from HARPER’S WEEKLY, November 7, 1863
[from: http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/631014b.htm]
Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade, believing that Gen. Robert E. Lee would attack the Union army at Centreville, issued orders on October 13 instructing his corps commanders to mass there the next day. Lee, however, had no intention of engaging Meade’s army at Centreville. He planned to intercept it sooner, preferably along the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. Bristoe Station was on the railroad.
Early on October 14, Meade’s I and VI corps, followed by the III and V corps, crossed Broad Run north of Bristoe, heading toward Manassas. Marching from Catlett’s Station along the south side of the railroad, the rear of the Union infantry— Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren’s II Corps—arrived at Bristoe early in the afternoon. Lee ordered Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell’s II Corps and Lt. Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill’s III Corps to march to Bristoe via Greenwich on the 14th. At Greenwich the Confederates encountered Union army stragglers. Ewell knew the countryside and decided to go cross-country and by back roads to Bristoe while Hill’s troops followed the road.
Hill rode ahead, and from a high point he sighted troops of the V Corps crossing Broad Run. He ordered Maj. Gen. Henry Heth to form a battle line anchored on Greenwich Road. North Carolinians commanded by Brig. Gen. John R. Cooke and Brig. Gen. William W. Kirkland deployed on the right and left of the road, with Brig. Gen. Henry H. Walker’s Virginia Brigade behind Kirkland’s Brigade. Before they were in place, the impatient Hill sent his troops forward and directed Maj. William T. Poague’s artillery to fire into the Union troops.
Hill erred, and launched a tragedy. He focused on the Union troops near Broad Run and failed to see Warren’s corps as it came up, its columns screened by the railroad cut to his right. He also neglected to note that Ewell’s corps was too far away to reinforce him.
When Union skirmishers spotted the Confederates’ advance toward Broad Run, they crossed to the north side of the tracks and shielded Warren’s men as they hastened into position behind the 2-10 foot-high railroad embankment. Warren ordered the concealed troops commanded by Col. Francis E. Heath, Col. James Mallon, and Brig. Gen. Joshua T. Owen to hold their fire. Artillery under Capt. William Arnold and Capt. Robert Bruce Ricketts unlimbered on ridges behind them. Lt. T. F. Brown’s artillery, positioned on a hill across Broad Run, later joined Arnold and Ricketts.
As the Confederates closed on Broad Run at 2:00 p.m., troop movements and musket fire behind the railroad drew their attention. Cooke’s and Kirkland’s brigades shifted to the right to face the attack. Then the hidden Union soldiers rose and fired directly into the charging Confederate soldiers. Despite the odds, the Confederates breached Mallon’s line and mortally wounded Mallon. Point-blank Union fire and an artillery enfilade severely wounded Cooke and Kirkland and forced the Confederates to retreat in disarray.
Brig. Gen. Carnot Posey’s Mississippians and Brig. Gen. Edward A. Perry’s Floridians swarmed across the tracks and enveloped Col. Thomas Smyth’s left flank. Capt. Nelson Ames’s artillery roared into action and forced Perry and Posey back. When Cooke and Kirkland retreated, they left Maj. David G. McIntosh’s artillery battery without infantry protection. Union soldiers rushed forward, captured five guns, and pulled them back to the south side of the tracks.
By 4:00 p.m., the Confederate battle lines had reformed about 500 yards north of the railroad, and Ewell’s corps and Lee had arrived. Union and Confederate artillery units began dueling, with the Union artillery having the advantage of stronger positions. At about 5:00 p.m. Maj. Gen. Robert E. Rodes’s Division of Ewell’s Corps seized the Kettle Run railroad bridge 1 mile west of Bristoe. Darkness approached, and the battle of Bristoe Station was over.
Sporadic artillery fire continued during the evening. Confederate soldiers remained at their battle stations on the field, and it began raining. Throughout the night, the men listened to the cries of their wounded who lay near the railroad embankment and the Union line. The Federals carried their wounded off the battlefield, and by midnight they had quietly waded across Broad Run and resumed their march to Centreville.
Early the next morning Lee and Hill rode across the battlefield. Lee was displeased. He told Hill to “bury these poor men and let us say no more about it.” Upon reading the battle reports, Jefferson Davis concluded, “There was a want of vigilance.” Hill’s misreading of the Union’s troop and position strength, his failure to determine the proximity of Confederate reinforcements, and his impatience, combined with Warren’s patience and effective use of the battlefield terrain—including the railroad embankment—resulted in the Confederate defeat.
Bristoe Station was the sight of Hill’s first defeat by a comparable Union force. A remarkable combat officer, commander of Lee’s III Corps, Hill stumbled into a sharp, bloody defeat because of his impetuosity and failur to reconnoiter; 2 Confederate brigades were slaughtered by his poor generalship.
MEN FROM NASH COUNTY FIGHTING IN THE 47TH NC INFANTRY, COMPANY A CAPTURED AT OTHER BATTLES IN THE CIVIL WAR:
GETTYSBURG, PA 1-3 July 1863
Private JAMES M. BUNN
Private JONATHAN COCKRELL (died in the days after the battle)
Private JAMES B. O’NEAL
1st Lieutenant JOSEPH J. PARTIN
Private SAMUEL H. SELLERS (3 July 1863 & he died the same day)
Private BRYANT P. STRICKLAND
Private WREN Q. TISDALE (capture a second time, no information)
NORTH ANNA RIVER, VA – 23 May 1864
Private WILLIAM B. STRICKLAND
COLD HARBOR, VA -2 June 1864
Private WILLIAM BRYANT
BURGESS’ MILL, VIRGINA – 27 October 1864
Private EDMOND J. ABERNATHY
Private ROBERT T. ABERNATHY
Private EDMOND F. BASS
Private JACKSON M. BRANTLEY
Private MACK BRANTLEY
Private ANDREW M. CARPENTER
Private WILLIAM S. GARDNER
Private ANDREW J. HENDERSON
Private CASWELL A. JOYNER
Private RAEFORD LILES
Private JOHN R. STRICKLAND
Private WILLIAM TAYLOR
Private JOHN VICK
Private PERRY WHITLEY
PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA – 25 March 1865
Sergeant JOHN JESTON BARNHILL
Private SAMUEL R. BRYANT
MEN ARE SCRAMBLING HEADED SOUTH TOWARD NASH COUNTY AND HOME.
SUTHERLAND’S STATION, VA – 2 April 1865
Private JESSE F. BASS
SOUTH SIDE RAILROAD, PETERSBURG, VA – 2 April 1865
Private PAYTON BISSETT
Private AUGUSTUS M. BRYANT
Private WILLIAM D. CONE
Private RUFFIN T. DODD
Private IRVIN C. EATMAN
Private ABIJAH GRIFFIN
Private JAMES A. PUCKETT (3 April 1865)
JARRATT’S STATION, VA – 2 April 1865
Private JOSEPH T. HALL
Private WILLIAM D. MURRAY
HATCHER’S RUN, VA – 2 April 1865
Corporal AUGUSTUS J. CHAMBLEE
Private W. H. WARD
Private JAMES T. WEBB
PETERSBURG – 2 April 1865
Private RANSON T. DODD
Private WILLIAM L. DOZIER
Private EDWARD B. FINCH
Private Kinchen E. JOYNER
Private WILLIAM R. JOYNER
Private ELBERT C. LEWIS
Private JESSE MITCHELL
Private GERALDUS RICE
Private JOSIAH HAYWOOD STRICKLAND
Private LEMON STRICKLAND (3 April 1863)
APPOMATTOX RIVER, VA – 3 April 1865
Private THOMAS STRUG
SURRENDER AND STACK RIFLES AT APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE, VA – 9 April 1865
Sergeant Major PASCHALL A. PAGE
Ordinance Sergeant GEORGE S. HINES
3rd Lieutenant THOMAS WESTRAY
Private WILLIAM BAINES
Private WRIGHT S. BATCHELOR
Private JOSEPH J. BISSETT
Private SIMON JONES
Private GILLIAM LEWIS
Private JAMES MORGAN
Private JOHN H. MORGAN
Private WILLIAM G. MURRY
Private ELIJAH WILLIAM PATTERSON
Corporal WESTERN H. PERRY
Private WILLIAM E. STOTT
Private JAMES L. STRICKLAND
Sergeant WILLIS M. WARREN
MEN OF THE 47th NC INFANTRY IMPRISONED AT THE UNION PRISON AT POINT LOOKOUT, MARYLAND
IT IS REPORTED THAT ONE CONFEDERATE VETERAN, AS HE STACKED HIS RIFLE, IN DISGUST, EXCLAIMED “I’LL NEVER LOVE ANOTHER DAMN COUNTRY!”